One Ugly Goddess
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queensthiefI just wanted to take this opportunity to share. As I said in the chat today, my roommate and I had this really clever idea where she would bring her paperbacks of The Thief and QoA and I would bring my KoA. We only lasted two weeks before I had to send for my hardcovers because I was in withdrawal and we needed multiple copies to live.
I am of course immensely fond of my hardcovers because I have known them well since eighth grade (so for, like, 6.5 years). However, looking off the side of my bed and seeing The Thief, I realize...
HOW INCREDIBLY UGLY THE COVER IS.
It wasn't even until last year, with the help of my Eddisian co-conspirator, that I figured out what the cover was OF. For years, I thought it was a really really ugly man. It didn't even occur to me that it might be Hephestia. I think that's not my fault, because you know what Great Goddesses aren't supposed to be?
I will tell you.
They are not supposed to be horrifically, mind-fryingly ugly. They are not supposed to be SO ugly that it takes three people to figure out they are a woman. They are not to be SO ugly that you're GLAD a hand-shadow is covering part of their face. It is NOT PROPER GODDESS BEHAVIOUR.
Well. At least it's a hardcover.
I am of course immensely fond of my hardcovers because I have known them well since eighth grade (so for, like, 6.5 years). However, looking off the side of my bed and seeing The Thief, I realize...
HOW INCREDIBLY UGLY THE COVER IS.
It wasn't even until last year, with the help of my Eddisian co-conspirator, that I figured out what the cover was OF. For years, I thought it was a really really ugly man. It didn't even occur to me that it might be Hephestia. I think that's not my fault, because you know what Great Goddesses aren't supposed to be?
I will tell you.
They are not supposed to be horrifically, mind-fryingly ugly. They are not supposed to be SO ugly that it takes three people to figure out they are a woman. They are not to be SO ugly that you're GLAD a hand-shadow is covering part of their face. It is NOT PROPER GODDESS BEHAVIOUR.
Well. At least it's a hardcover.
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Date: 10/1/06 01:23 am (UTC)By the way, this post made me laugh, and is still making me laugh, a lot. So thanks. XD
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Date: 10/2/06 07:34 pm (UTC)I'll never, NEVER, be able to forget your riding crop comment. Oh, the painful images. *scrubs at brain*
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Date: 10/2/06 07:39 pm (UTC)Magus
Date: 10/2/06 09:28 pm (UTC)Ok, what about him (http://www.born-today.com/Today/pix/branagh_kenneth.jpg) as the Magus? Think more Hamlet and less Gilderoy Lockhart. Snide, conceited, supercilious, no?
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Date: 10/1/06 09:56 am (UTC)emerald ;)
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Date: 10/1/06 04:16 pm (UTC)I've been trying to hand-sell the book to patrons -- I always have to tell them DISREGARD THE COVER, just read the book.
Oh, and by the way...
Date: 10/1/06 04:23 pm (UTC)By which I meant to say...
Date: 10/1/06 04:29 pm (UTC)did that make more sense?
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Date: 10/1/06 06:12 pm (UTC)Also, Librarians. I love librarians. Maybe I should be one?
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Date: 10/1/06 06:36 pm (UTC)that makes the whole quote thing sooooo much better, as I never really understood it before
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Date: 10/1/06 06:39 pm (UTC)Hey, on the other hand the new covers are very nice
Date: 10/1/06 06:38 pm (UTC)emerald :))))))
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Date: 10/1/06 06:44 pm (UTC)If nothing else, the shadow of the hand is awesome. I wonder if MWT had any idea at that time that Gen was going to lose that hand soon.
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Date: 10/1/06 07:55 pm (UTC)They look like M&Ms.
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Date: 10/1/06 10:34 pm (UTC)I think I knew it was Hephestia. Actually, I know I knew it was Hephestia, because when I first read this post, I couldn't figure out what the problem was. :-b I like it because...it looked tranquil to me. Just...there's a statue. Completely misleading as to what was contained inside.
The paperback Gen looks, to me, like a badly drawn Sirius Black.
...I cannot BELIEVE I never saw that hand...*facepalm*
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Date: 10/2/06 03:09 pm (UTC)*snickers*
Date: 10/2/06 05:47 pm (UTC)on the other hand
hee hee. Funny.
(This is Haley--too lazy to go to the computer lab)
Date: 10/2/06 11:13 pm (UTC)I didn't know that was supposed to be Hephestia...at all. I think I thought it was just some random statue of a random god. It..IS pretty...ungoddess looking. XD I actually prefer the original paperback cover out of all of them, but I think it's because it's the only cover I've ever gotten to see IRL that shows *all* of Gen's face (I was going to say it was the only cover that has Gen on it, but then I realized that was a big fat lie. XD)
Although, my favorite cover of all of them is the KOA cover....with the hardcover QOA cover as a close second (the 'floating hand' one--it was the cover that intrigued me enough to read the book in the first place, so I have to give it kudos)
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Date: 10/3/06 07:51 pm (UTC)I have to agree on the covers--the floating hand QoA is the one that got me to read the book...I love that one. And the new KoA is simply gorgeous.
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